The Dynamics of Morphotactic Change in Sango

Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Issues in African Linguistics (1994

Eps8 Regulates Axonal Filopodia in Hippocampal Neurons in Response to Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF)

A novel signaling cascade controlling actin polymerization in response to extracellular signals regulates filopodia formation and likely also neuronal synapse formation

Ilmu bahasa lapangan

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Review of Histoire de la République centrafricaine des origines préhistoriques à nos jours, by Pierre Kalck

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Canadian Journal of African Studies 9, no. 2 (1975): 388-389. 1975 © Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00083968.1975.10804462.It is a happy accident that made possible this account of the history of the Central African Republic. The author served this nation in an almost uninterrupted manner from 1949 to 1967, first as a colonial administrator and after independence as technical advisor (p. 24). He had personal contact with a number of elderly persons who took part or could tell him of important events; he also had access to archives "in the bust" and in the capital. He writes: "A partir de 1949, nous avons participe souvent aux evenernents relates et nous avons connu la majorite des acteurs de l'histoire centrafricaine. Pour la vingtaine d'annies qui vient de s'achever, ce livre constitue donc, avant tout, un teimoignage direct" (p. 25)

Lingua francas of the world

The language of the Crusaders was not the first lingua franca in the history of mankind, but it furnished the name for all such similar languages ever since

Priorities for research in sociolinguistics in Africa

Although the following contribution comes in written form, it must be considered as coming from the 'top of my head' (or 'our heads, 'for H. A. Gleason saw my list in its rough form and suggested a couple of topics). The topics came more or less by free association; they were organized in the manner presented below after the list was complete. I had spent a few minutes trying to define sociolinguistics and to distinguish it from what Hymes calls 'the ethnography of speech' (what kinds of things to say, TOPIC; in what message forms, FORM; to what kinds of people, ADDRESSEE; in what kinds of situation SITUATION). The exercise may have been a good one, but I don't know exactly in what way it contributed to the drawing up of this list of research topics. Topic s 1-16 are primarily concerned with data collection

Colonization and Pidginization on the Ubangi River

The genesis of Sango, pidginized in the 19th century, involved too many factors to allow it to fit neatly into any one of the numerous scenarios proposed for pidgins. One of these I disallowed soon after my first encounter with this language (Samarin 1955). Sango, I said, could not possibly be accounted for in the way Bloomfield (1933) did when he wrote about how pidgins came into existence. There was no evidence of anything like a plantation system where a dominated population tried but failed to arrive at native-like command of the dominant language. That was a possible explanation for pidgins based on European languages, but Sango was African